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Grammatical roles, Coherence Relations, and the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese
Simpson, Andrew Wu, Zoe Li, Yan
Simpson, Andrew
Wu, Zoe
Li, Yan
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This paper reports on an experimental study of the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese which provides additional support for the proposal in Yang et al. (1999, 2003) that the resolution of pronominal reference in Chinese is more influenced by syntactic information than often assumed in approaches to discourse anaphora in Chinese such as Li and Thompson (1979), Givon (1983), Chen (1986), Christensen (2000), and Pu (2011), where the interpretation of such elements is solely attributed to semantic, pragmatic, and discourse structure-related factors. The paper makes use of a series of sentence completion tasks, adapted from Kehler and Rohde (2013) for Chinese, to try to tease apart the often complex roles played by syntactic position, Coherence Relations, and discourse structure.
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2016-12
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Springer Verlag
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Pronouns, Coherence Relations, Discourse anaphora
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Simpson, A., Wu, Z. & Li, Y. lingua. sin. (2016) 2: 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40655-016-0011-2